Prince Charles is to visit for jubilee
Thursday 15th December 2011, 1:00PM GMT.
The Prince of Wales in Candie Gardens during his last trip to the island in 2004. (Picture by Peter Frankland, 0105276)
PRINCE CHARLES will be visiting the island as part of the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations, it has been revealed.
Bailiff Sir Geoffrey Rowland made the announcement at yesterday’s States meeting. He told deputies that the Prince of Wales visited the island twice in 1976, once in 1995, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Liberation, and again in 2004.
Chief Minister Lyndon Trott said: ‘We welcome most heartily this news and look forward to playing our part in the royal visit next year.’
Next year marks the diamond jubilee of the Queen’s accession to the throne and to honour the occasion, members of the Royal family will be joining in celebrations in the Commonwealth countries, the Crown Dependencies and the overseas territories.
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Im sure he would prefer to be in his fav european destination
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It would appear the island is not fit for a visit by The Queen Herself!
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I shall be pleased to see Prince Charles during his forthcoming Royal visit.
It is asking a lot to expect the Queen to visit all the countries where she is head of state (16 I believe)in one year particularly as she is approaching ninety.
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Personally I’d rather that none of them come over, parasites.
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“Prince Charles, subjected to a regime of fierce paternal harangues and penitential cold-shower boarding schools, withdrew into himself, was eventually talked into a calamitous marriage with someone he didn’t love or respect, and is now the morose, balding, New Age crank and licensed busybody that we flinch from today.”
The wonderful writer and essayist Christopher Hitchens, who died today
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He was never one to flinch from expressing himself, that Mr Hitchens.
RIP
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You can’t expect the Queen to visit a scruffy little island where human faeces is routinely pumped into the sea, where half the roads are closed and where the moaning, down-at-heel population shuffle around like badly-dressed zombies.
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